From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 26 14:21:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA28600 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA28591 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id VAA07379; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:18:17 GMT Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:18:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Mike Smith cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More ATAPI Zip news (will he ever shut up?) In-Reply-To: <199709261822.DAA04965@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > Just keeping people informed; the latest Award BIOS *does* appear to be > able to boot from the ATAPI Zip. Curiouser and curiouser. That's a bit of good news. I've based a new system on booting off of these puppies and the one I used for testing, picked up two weeks ago, works fine. I'm not looking forward to coming up with an alternative. The iomega web site is still refering to them as IDE Zip drives, has the packaging, part number or anything else changed? Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82